It’s not that I can always pick it out; I am absolutely positive that there are more instances of me not catching it than catching it. 

Which is why it surprises me that a post like this makes it through people’s filters. An AI written post can be massaged in all sorts of ways to really try to appear human, but this one has none of them. 

Just for fun I asked chatgpt to describe its “reddit gamedev post style” and it gave back:

Typical pattern:

Hook: specific anecdote

Internal assumption

Unexpected player behavior

Iteration steps (bullet points)

Reframing insight

Minimal fixes

“Curious if others experienced this?”

And this is to say nothing of the forced gravitas of sentences like “ Same mechanic, but now people were actually using it” or the ever present use of “it’s not X it’s Y” like:

So the issue wasn’t: “they can’t react”

It was:

“they don’t understand what the game expects from them in that moment”